No halftime show at Super Bowl 2014? Thats the word, according to planners who say the weather may prevent appearances at matchup XLVIII, set for New Jersey.

Its because of the cold weather, said one involved with next years Super Bowl planning, in a New York Post report. Its not only the acts and the singers, but also the crews that have to put the stage together. You just cant assemble the stage and break it down fast enough in the cold.

A superb lineup would consist of Lee Greenwood reverently performing the National Anthem without the histrionics that's been the pattern of late. The halftime feature would be Hank Williams, Jr. teaming up with Charlie Daniels. This year's lineup of Holder's people "performing" was repulsive and an assault on the ears.

Bring on some real talent for a change. In addition, the three men I cited would have no problem whatsoever adapting to the elements, whatever they might be. Conservatives need not be coddled like the talent-deprived Obama partisans we were subjected to yesterday.

I rate this as 0% likely. If logistics are the issue, they’ll just have the show at another facility and transmit it on the Jumbotron screens in the stadium. There’s no point in having the show on the field itself except for the attendees to say they saw (insert act name here) perform “live”.

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posted on 02/04/2013 10:47:36 AM PST
by kevkrom
(If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)

The rule should be: Unless youre in a warm-climate state, you cant have an outdoor Super Bowl. (Yes...I know that eliminates Seattle from ever hosting one. Oh well.)

I've heard people even complaining about the northern domed stadiums because the cold weather puts a damper on all the festivities in the week leading up to the Super Bowl. Who wants to do anything outside in Minneapolis in February even if the stadium is domed?

Some of the cities like Seattle or San Francisco should be OK for an outdoor Super Bowl because it doesn't get really cold. New York is just nuts. Why not just go to Green Bay and be done with it?

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posted on 02/04/2013 10:48:25 AM PST
by KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)

The NFL & Networks hate the working man/woman. Otherwise why do they make the game so late on a Sunday that most men/women that have to earn a living can’t see the end of it? It reminds me of professional baseball. You know who invented night baseball? The Negro League because their audience didn’t have the pleasure of missing work to go to a day game. So they set up light poles and generators and played at night. You see the same thing with the Super Bowl and NFL.

I've been saying this for a long time. The halftime shows have gone from bad to worse to embarrassing. Just when you thought nothing could be worse than Black Eyed Peas, here comes the garbage they put on yesterday.

Football is an American tradition and marching bands on the field would be treat for all.

It would be a great marketing tool for people to watch college games all season and rate bands on their performances and pick two 'winners'.

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posted on 02/04/2013 10:52:23 AM PST
by Baynative
(I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down.)

That used to the rule. It limited the Super Bowl to LA/Pasadena, New Orleans, Miami, Houston, and Dallas. The first fifteen games were held in one of these cities. It wasn't just about the venue for the game, it was about the convenience of the fans and media. It's no fun battling a blizzard to leave your hotel for a party at some other location in the days before the game.

I guess the owners of other teams and the mayors for cities they play in got jealous of the revenues the games generated and demanded they get a slice of the pie too. So in 1982 Pontiac, Michigan became the first cold weather site. Still, through 2014 only five Super Bowls have been awarded to truly cold weather locations- Pontiac, Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis, and East Rutherford, New Jersey.

The really insane part of that last choice is it's an outdoor stadium.

While Mrs. Dawgg and I were waiting for the 2nd half to start (we were reading our Kindles) I looked up at all the undulating and caterwauling that apparently passes for a "live" pop music performance these days and asked her. “I don't think this will ever replace entertainment, do you?” She giggled and turned the sound down and we went on reading.

On that, we differ. Alicia Keys is an Obama supporter who "performed" at his lavish, over-the-top inauguration. Any "artist" who so overtly praises the individual now illegally occupying the White House lacks discernment and, ergo, class.

Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce Knowles are likewise no-talent hacks whose support for the usurper in chief immediately disqualifies them from those with true class such as Hank Williams, Jr. and Charlie Daniels, both of whom are pro-American, pro-gun and, of course, pro-God.

Sadly, you don't get much of that even when watching college games. You get a bunch of talking heads over-analyzing the game and a wrap-up of nationwide scores.

There's actually a good reason for that: royalties. Marching bands don't often play original music, but rather arrangements of existing songs. The royalty structure is much different for "live performance in a stadium" vs. "broadcast on national TV" -- the networks check with the bands in advance as to their playlist so they can pre-clear the songs and pick the right time(s) to cut back to the stadium.

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posted on 02/04/2013 11:08:09 AM PST
by kevkrom
(If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)

I think they should show a televised repeat of the SB halftime show where Prince did his concert in the rain in Miami. It was riveting just to see if the little snot was going to electrocute himself in front of 80,000 people.

Heck, the NE all voted for Obama. Let him sing Karaoke for halftime. Or let him host the “Punt, Pass and Raise Your Taxes” competition.

Watching the healthy young girl on stage, going by the name Beyonce, she was quite agile. I looked at my future daughter in law and said “ you know when Vince Lombardi was winning Super Bowls...this performance would have been called pornography”.

How things change

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posted on 02/04/2013 11:16:46 AM PST
by Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)

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